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paid sick days-are you for this?
I get 1.25 sick days per month and have accumulated 184. Supposedly, upon retirement I will be paid for 25% of these sick days, but I don't believe for one moment that our governor and legislature (edited, I had mistyped this as "legislator")will ever let that happen.
In a way, I think it's ridiculous that I can bank up to 250 sick days. Then again, it's even more ridiculous to have a "use them or lose them" deal. I know if we had a "use them or lose them" we'd have colleagues out for half of May when the school year's almost over.
Are you for this NY proposal?
plans to require all employers with 20 or more workers to give employees paid time off when they get sick, under a compromise agreement reached last night.
The mandate will take effect on April 1, 2014, and will extend to include businesses with 15 or more employees a year later, under the accord, which was confirmed by Robin Levine, a City Council spokeswoman. It will also require all employers in the city to provide unpaid sick leave starting in 2014.
Pedestrians cross a road in New York. The law, if adopted, will mean workers won?t have to fear losing a job because of illness. It will affect 1 million New Yorkers by 2015. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloombe
?The final outcome leaves out over 300,000 New Yorkers,? said city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, a rival to Council Speaker Christine Quinn among five Democrats running for the party?s mayoral nomination. She had previously blocked efforts to bring such a proposal, backed by 38 of the 51 council members, to a vote.
The law, if adopted, will mean workers won?t have to fear losing a job because of illness. It will affect 1 million New Yorkers by 2015. A similar measure has won approval in Portland, Oregon, while others are pending in Massachusetts, Vermont and Washington state.
Quinn for three years resisted calls from a majority of the council to permit a vote on a bill that would have covered employers with five or more workers, saying it would impose too great a burden on small businesses while the unemployment rate remained at more than 9 percent. As a mayoral candidate, she has been criticized by de Blasio and others for her opposition to the measure.
Council Compromise
The bill agreed to yesterday represents a compromise with members of the council and advocacy groups, Levine said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would veto the previous version of the bill. A spokesman said the mayor?s office doesn?t plan to comment on the accord until later today. Bloomberg is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.
The agreement is ?a good compromise,? said Carlo Scissura, president and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.
?This legislation in no way impacts small businesses -- such as mom-and-pop stores with less than 20 employees -- that could not otherwise afford to compensate their employees with sick pay,? Scissura said in a statement. He thanked Quinn ?for standing up for the needs of small businesses while balancing that with the rights of workers.?
Legal Gaps
Supporters are pushing for paid sick time because they say the 20-year-old federal Family and Medical Leave Act doesn?t go far enough. The landmark bill granted as much as 12 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave to new parents and those who are sick or have ill dependents. About 40 percent of workers aren?t covered because it applies only to those working more than 25 hours a week and employers with 50 or more employees.
The act also doesn?t enable recovery of lost wages and applies only to serious illness, not routine conditions such as colds and the flu. Proponents have been fighting to expand the measure ever since, concentrating their efforts at the state and local level.
Under the New York City accord, employees would need to work at least four months before earning paid time off, including part-timers. The law would exclude work-study students and seasonal employees. It would be enforced by the Consumer Affairs Department, according to information from Levine.
44 Million Deprived
Forty-four million Americans don?t get paid time off when sick, according to Family Values @ Work, a nonprofit group leading 20 state and local coalitions backing paid-leave laws.
In places where such policies are in place -- Connecticut, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco and Long Beach, California -- workers earn a minimum number of days a year, depending on the size of their employer. They can use the time off to care for themselves or dependents. The smallest workplaces are sometimes exempt.
Opponents, including the National Federation of Independent Businesses, have been busy, too. They?re backing proposed state laws in Florida, Washington and Michigan that seek to stem the spread of paid sick leave by cutting off the ability of municipalities to impose it. Wisconsin, Mississippi and Louisiana already have passed such measures, which backers say help avoid a hodgepodge of local laws.
The National Restaurant Association, the biggest industry trade association, is part of a coalition of business groups opposed to mandatory sick-leave policies.
Re: paid sick days-are you for this?
Before I had DS, I didn't have paid sick days. I didn't work, I didn't get paid. When I had my ectopic, I had to take a week off due to my emergency surgery. It happened to be just before February break which I didn't get paid for so my paycheck was ve
In my job we get a certain amount of PTO, I get 3 weeks. They are use them or lose them. I have no problem with this.
New Jersey is a mess. One of the reasons are the accrued sick time payouts. They can be well over $100,000 for retiring worker
I've had sick days with every post-college job prior to becoming self-employed. It's a must for me. Unless I'm working hourly, I would never even consider working a job that did not have them (provided I wasn't in the position of needing to
I am definitely for this. We are one of the only countries in the world that doesn't require workers to have paid sick days.
Do you really want that waiter with the flu serving your food because he couldn't afford to stay home and n
I'm an employer in the UK and I like having paid sick days for a lot of reasons.
It encourages sick people to stay home instead of "powering through" thus infecting the rest of the staff
After 6 years I have yet to have had a single s
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
Companies that don't give sick days incentivize their workers to come to work while sick and infect everyone else, which only hurts productivity even more.
I don't necessarily think Government intervention is the right move here, but I do think